long day's journey into the morning

wow had a seriously long day at work yesterday, which ended with me managing to catch (just in the nick of time btw) the 130am bus home. and to add to my troubles i couldn't get the door of the minibus to open!! the driver (who was really really nice) even had to come out and open it for me!

anyway, i blame it all on SM lee. he's turning 80 on tuesday and ST just had to do an 8 page spread on him. and STI just had to do a webspecial based on that spread. and i just had to be put in charge of it (altho the truth is i didn't really know what i was doing - so it was all thanks to my web designer and webmaster that it managed to get up!)

Btw, i was extremely appalled at an article in today's Sunday Times, about the murders in South Australia. i wasn't appalled at the murders actually but rather this little sentence just stuck in my mind and pissed me off.

And here it is: They referred to their killing as 'playing', and often played the song Selling The Drama by the group Live when they killed. One line from the song goes: 'Hey, now that we won't be raped, hey, now we won't be scarred like that.'

Why am i pissed off with this sentence? becos I listen to Live and i think they make pretty darn good music. And I don't like the inference that the writer makes about listening to the music. I've listened to that song, many many times, and i like that song. And am i out there killing people? NO!!

I've been reading this book Killing Monsters: WHy children need fantasy, super heroes and make-believe violence by Gerard Jones.

He's trying to explain how violence in video games and tv shows aren't always harmful, and in fact how it can actually help lower aggression in a kid. and how ít's crazy that people are trying to ban violent tv shows/video games esp after Columbine.

And i think music can also be included in that argument. So wat if the murderers listened to that song when they were doing the killing? would it have been included in the story if they so happened to be listening to classical music at that time?

Jones also includes in his argument the many faulty 'experiments' that were used to show how media violence affects children. But i shan't go into detail here - this blog is already too long. Instead, check out a short excerpt of his book right here.

Thank you for listening! (or in this case, reading)